5:30 PM - Sky Full of LightersLantern-lighting event complete with inspiring music and hot chocolate and a ceremony to bring tears to your eyes and motivation to take a stand. Buy a lantern for only $3 and write the name of a loved one or someone you know fighting cancer, and turn the switch to light the Quad with HOPE! Lanterns are on sale all week in the College Center or you can buy yours at the event.Lower Quad

7:00 PM - Hispanic Film Festival: Lula Son of BrazilThis free film is the story of the early years of Brazilian President Luis Inácio da Silva, a man who came from nowhere to eventually achieve success (Not rated; in Portuguese with subtitles). 128 min.Free admissionHanson Hall of Science 102

7:00 PM - Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War"Steve Warren leads this series of reading and discussion groupsFor details or to register and obtain copies of all program materials, visit the 2nd floor reference desk or call 309-524-2470.Free admissionMoline Public Library, 3210 41st Street, Moline, IL

7:00 - 9:00 PM - Asian NightStudents and faculty are given a chance to try new foods and observe cultures different from their own.Tickets will be on sale Jan. 11-16 in the College Center during lunch and dinner hours. $5 in advance; $6 at the doorWesterlin Residence Center

From the publisher:The second edition of The Jepson Manual thoroughly updates this acclaimed work, the single most comprehensive resource on California's amazingly diverse flora. The Jepson Manual, second edition, integrates the latest science with the results of intensive fieldwork, institutional collaboration, and efforts of hundreds of contributing authors into an essential reference on California's native and naturalized vascular plants.

The second edition includes treatments of many newly described or discovered taxa and recently introduced plants, and reflects major improvements to plant taxonomy from phylogenetic studies. Nearly two-thirds of the 7,600 species, subspecies, and varieties the volume describes are now illustrated with diagnostic drawings. Geographic distributions, elevation ranges, flowering times, nomenclature, and the status of non-natives and native taxa of special concern have all been updated throughout. This edition also allows for identification of 240 alien taxa that are not fully naturalized but sometimes encountered. A new chapter on geologic, climatic, and vegetation history of California is also featured

Peter Kivisto (Soc., Anth. & Social Welfare Dept.) had an article titled "We Really Are All Multiculturalists Now" published in The Sociological Quarterly (vol. 53, no. 1, 2012: pp. 1-24). This is the printed version of his Midwest Sociological Society Presidential Address, which he delivered on March 25, 2011 in St. Louis. An earlier version of the paper was presented under the title "Rethinking Multicultural Civil Society" as the keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration at the University of Oulu (Finland) on October 21, 2010.

Dan Lee's (Religion Dept.) book Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which he co-authored with his daughter, Elizabeth J. Lee, was one of the books featured at a "Breakfast with an Author" session at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Washington, D.C.

Tim Muir (Biology) recently attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Charleston, SC where he presented his project entitled, "Energy use in terrestrially hibernating hatchling turtles (Chrysemys picta) is extremely sensitive to overwintering temperature."